Notes on the Deobandi school of Islam

There is a dichotomy in the Deobandi school of Islam. Those in India are respectable orthodox Moslems. Those in Pakistan are radical extremists who are barely Moslem since they veer so far from the core teachings of Islam. These comments are only applicable to Pakistani Deobandi Moslems.
The best known group of Deobandis is Afghanistan's Taliban. One of Pakistan's intelligence agencies helped fund a Deobandi conference in Peshawar in April, 2001 at which delegates heard messages from Usama bin Laden, the Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, and Libya's ruler Muamar Qaddafi.
http://www.nmhschool.org/tthornton/deobandi_muslims.htm
Militant Islam, anti-Shia, anti-Russian, Anti-Indian, ties to al Qaeda, Taliban, Pakistani ISI, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Royal Family.
"Fatwa of three hundred Ulama against Deobandis ``The Deobandis, because of their contempt and insult, in their acts of worship, towards all saints, prophets, and even the Holy Prophet Muhammad and the very Person of God Himself, are definitely murtadd and kafir. Their apostasy and heresy is of the worst kind, so that anyone who doubts their apostasy and heresy even slightly is himself a murtadd and kafir. Muslims should be very cautious of them, and stay away from them. Let alone praying behind them, one should not let them pray behind one, or allow them into mosques, or eat the animal slaughtered by them, or join them on happy or sad occasions, or let them come near one, or visit them in illness, or attend their funerals, or give them space in Muslim grave-yards. To sum up, one must stay away from them completely.''
(See the Unanimous Fatwa of Three Hundred Ulama, published by Muhammad Ibrahim of Bhagalpur)
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